GP services in North Wales are reaching breaking point - North Wales Weekly News

GP services in North Wales are reaching breaking point - North Wales Weekly News: " Cllr Selwyn Griffiths added: “I’m concerned about shortages of doctors.”"

He is also concerned about the shortage of housing, can't he understand why we have these problems?

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Expansion plan ‘could threaten Dales brand’ - Farming - Yorkshire Post

Expansion plan ‘could threaten Dales brand’ - Farming - Yorkshire Post: "But the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s chief executive, David Butterworth, told the Yorkshire Post that he believed an extension to the boundaries would not prove as problematic as many feared.

He added that the authority supported the move, as long as it was given enough funding to support its work across a wider area 
and local democracy for communities in the existing park is not eroded.

He said: “It is about considering whether the landscapes are worthy of designation. I do believe that if the boundaries are extended, then it will enhance the area for the people living there."

The only people who benefit from national park designation are the people who run it. The tourism industry existed long before some misguided people started drawing the suffocating boundaries.

The indigenous population suffer from what international human rights lawyers describe as "soft eviction" or "voluntary resettlement" when they can't find work which isn't part-time, seasonal or subject to the vagaries of the weather, poor wages mean they can't afford the housing even if it is subject to pointless and unenforceable 'locals occupancy' restrictions.



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Welsh language at risk from 'lifestyle refugees flooding into its heartlands' - Wales Online

Welsh language at risk from 'lifestyle refugees flooding into its heartlands' - Wales Online: "Councillor Ceri Thomas suggested other cultural changes  have a more detrimental impact than planning issues"

Well said Ceri.

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Cabinet minister Eric Pickles accused of hypocrisy over Assembly sprinkler law - Wales Online

Cabinet minister Eric Pickles accused of hypocrisy over Assembly sprinkler law - Wales Online: "But a press release issued in 2002 by Mr Pickles, the MP for Brentwood and Ongar in Essex, “urged local councils and housing associations to act to save the lives of their tenants” by including sprinkler systems for new rented properties."

2002 was a long time ago, and he was drumming up votes by using soundbites.

Dafydd Elis-Thomas calls for 'liberation of England' in new federal arrangement for UK - Wales Online

Dafydd Elis-Thomas calls for 'liberation of England' in new federal arrangement for UK - Wales Online: "He said: “There has to be an independent body which is responsible for sharing resources. I don’t believe it can be done by the Treasury; it’s got to be done by an arm’s length body which has a fiscal responsibility for running fiscal federalism.”"

Quite

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Welsh Government | Housing Need and Demand in Wales 2006 to 2026

Welsh Government | Housing Need and Demand in Wales 2006 to 2026:

Estimates, estimates, estimates

So, how many have we built since 2006?

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BBC News - Barmouth Bridge in Gwynedd toll-free as staff leave

BBC News - Barmouth Bridge in Gwynedd toll-free as staff leave: "This has left the local authority facing a £23,000 deficit this year - the shortfall between what is allocated in the council's budget and the total money which Network Rail requires."

If it is part of the Wales coastal path then the Welsh Government should pay.

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BBC News - Gypsy sites: Welsh councils 'could face prosecution'

BBC News - Gypsy sites: Welsh councils 'could face prosecution': ""Surely in Wales we can accommodate those people so they have somewhere to live and bring their children up?""

Is this discriminating against 'normal' Welsh people and their children?

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